On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:41, Fredrik Wikstr�m wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may be a stupid question and perhaps nothing that's recommended to do
> but:
> Is it possible to make emerge take a file list as argument?
> I've been searching gentoo forums and the internet but I haven't found any
> solution. What I'm thinking of is if it's possible to pipe a file with
> packages listed to the emerge command?
> 
> It would be neat to just put some packages in a file
> (or take the file from 'qpkg -I') and just start a compilation and then
> leave the computer "chewing" for a few hours/days.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Fredrik
> 

You will probably get away with this untested bash:

emerge -pv `echo file_to_emerge`

or emerge -pv `qpkg -I -nc`

Note, the latter works, I've just used it...

-- 
Tom Wesley

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